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Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me

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On September 27, 1994, “Verve” label released “Nobody Else but Me”, studio album by Stan Getz. It was recorded in March 1964, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs” in New Jersey, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Stan Getz – tenor saxophone
  • Gary Burton – vibraphone
  • Gene Cherico – bass
  • Joe Hunt – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Summertime – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
  2. 6-Nix-Quix-Flix – Gary Burton
  3. Here’s That Rainy Day – Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
  4. Waltz for a Lovely Wife – Phil Woods
  5. Out of Focus – Gary Burton
  6. Nobody Else but Me – Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II
  7. Sweet Sorrow – Michael Gibbs
  8. Little Girl Blue – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  9. What Is This Thing Called Love? – Cole Porter
  10. Waltz for a Lovely Wife (single version)

The Supremes: Where Did Our Love Go

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On August 31, 1964, “Motown” label released “Where Did Our Love Go”, the second Supremes (The) studio album. It was recorded December 1962 – Augudt 1964, at “Hitsville U.S.A.” in Detroit, and was produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson, Norman Whitfield and Robert Gordy.

Personnel:

  • Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson – lead and backing vocals
  • The Funk Brothers – instrumentation
  • Robert White – guitar
  • Eddie Willis – guitar
  • Joe Messina – guitar
  • Earl Van Dyke – piano
  • James Jamerson – bass
  • Richard “Pistol” Allen – drums
  • Uriel Jones – drums
  • Jack Ashford – vibraphone
  • Andrew “Mike” Terry – baritone saxophone
  • Hank Cosby – tenor saxophone
  • Mike Valvano – footstomps
  • The Four Tops, and Holland–Dozier–Holland – backing vocals
  • The Love-Tones – backing vocals
  • Bernard Yeszin, Wallace Mead – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Holland–Dozier–Holland, except as noted.

  1. Where Did Our Love Go
  2. Run, Run, Run
  3. Baby Love
  4. When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes
  5. Come See About Me
  6. Long Gone Lover – Smokey Robinson
  7. I’m Giving You Your Freedom
  8. A Breathtaking Guy – Smokey Robinson
  9. He Means the World to Me – Norman Whitfield
  10. Standing at the Crossroads of Love
  11. Your Kiss of Fire – Robert Gordy, Harvey Fuqua
  12. Ask Any Girl

Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch!

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In August 1964, “Blue Note” label released “Out to Lunch!”, album by Eric Dolphy. It was recorded in February 1964, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

  • Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet, flute, alto saxophone
  • Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
  • Bobby Hutcherson – vibraphone
  • Richard Davis – bass
  • Tony Williams – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
  • Reid Miles – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Eric Dolphy.

  1. Hat and Beard
  2. Something Sweet, Something Tender
  3. Gazzelloni
  4. Out to Lunch
  5. Straight Up and Down

Pepper Adams: Pepper Adams Plays The Compositions Of Charles Mingus

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On August 10, 1964, “Workshop Jazz” label released “Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charles Mingus”, the ninth Pepper Adams album. It was recorded in September 1963, in New York City.

Personnel:

  • Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
  • Charles McPherson – alto saxophone 
  • Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone 
  • Thad Jones – trumpet
  • Benny Powell – trombone
  • Hank Jones – piano
  • Paul Chambers – bass 
  • Bob Cranshaw – bass
  • Dannie Richmond – drums
  • Bernard Yeszin – design, photography
  • Wallace Mead – design photography
  • Alston Anderson – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Charles Mingus.

  1. Fables of Faubus
  2. Black Light
  3. Song with Orange
  4. Carolyn
  5. Better Git It in Your Soul
  6. Incarnation
  7. Portrait
  8. Haitian Fight Song
  9. Strollin’ Honies

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Free For All

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In July 1976, “Blue Note” label released “Free for All”, the 22nd Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers album. It was recorded in February 1964, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Art Blakey – drums
  • Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
  • Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
  • Curtis Fuller – trombone
  • Cedar Walton – piano
  • Reggie Workman – bass
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording

Track listing:

  1. Free for All – Wayne Shorter
  2. Hammer Head – Wayne Shorter
  3. The Core – Freddie Hubbard
  4. Pensativa – Clare Fischer  

The Dave Clark Five: Having A Wild Weekend

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On June 28, 1965, “Epic” label released “Having a Wild Weekend”, the sixth Dave Clark Five (The) American album. It was presented as the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, released in the UK as “Catch Us If You Can”. It was recorded 1964 – 1965, and was produced by Dave Clark.

Personnel:

  • Dave Clark – drums, backing vocals
  • Lenny Davidson – electric guitars, backing vocals
  • Mike Smith – lead vocals, keyboards
  • Rick Huxley – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Denis Payton – tenor saxophone, backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Dave Clark and Lenny Davidson, except where noted.

  1. Having a Wild Weekend – Dave Clark, Mike Smith
  2. New Kind of Love – Dave Clark, Mike Smith
  3. Dum-Dee-Dee-Dum – Dave Clark, Denis Payton
  4. I Said I Was Story
  5. No Stopping
  6. Don’t Be Taken In
  7. Catch Us If You Can
  8. When I’m Alone – Dave Clark, Mike Smith
  9. If You Come Back
  10. Sweet Memories
  11. Don’t You Realize – Dave Clark, Mike Smith
  12. On the Move – Dave Clark, Denis Payton

Aretha Franklin: Soft And Beautiful

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In April 1969, “Columbia” label released “Soft and Beautiful”, the fifteenth Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded in July 1964, and was produced by Clyde Otis.

Personnel:

  • Aretha Franklin – vocal
  • Belford C. Hendricks – arrangements, conductor
  • Stan Tonkel – engineer
  • Stan Weiss – engineer
  • Thomas B. Allen – painting
  • Linda Solomon – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Only the Lonely – Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
  2. I Wish I Didn’t Love You So – Frank Loesser
  3. (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young – Johnny Mercer, M. Philippe-Gérard
  4. Shangri-La – Carl Sigman, Robert Maxwell, Matty Malneck
  5. A Mother’s Love – Cliff Owens
  6. My Coloring Book – John Kander, Fred Ebb
  7. Jim – Nelson Shawn, Caesar Petrillo, Edward Rose
  8. Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) – Paul Francis Webster, Dimitri Tiomkin
  9. But Beautiful – Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
  10. People (from Funny Girl) – Jule Styne, Bob Merrill

Sam Rivers: Fuchsia Swing Song

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In April 1965, “Blue Note” label released “Fuchsia Swing Song”, the debut Sam Rivers album. It was recorded in December 1964, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Sam Rivers – tenor saxophone
  • Jaki Byard – piano
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Tony Williams – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording, lacquer cut
  • Reid Miles – design, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Sam Rivers.

  1. Fuchsia Swing Song
  2. Downstairs Blues Upstairs
  3. Cyclic Episode
  4. Luminous Monolith
  5. Beatrice
  6. Ellipsis

Andrew Hill: Point Of Departure

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In April 1964, ”Blue Note” label released “Point of Departure”, the fifth Andrew Hill album. It was recorded in March 1964, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Track listing:

  • Andrew Hill – piano
  • Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
  • Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone, flute
  • Kenny Dorham – trumpet
  • Richard Davis – double bass
  • Tony Williams – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording
  • Reid Miles – design, photography
  • Nat Hentoff – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Andrew Hill.

  1. Refuge
  2. New Monastery
  3. Spectrum
  4. Flight 19
  5. Dedication

Marianne Faithfull: Same

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On April 15, 1965, “Decca” label released the self-titled, debut Marianne Faithfull album. It was recorded 1964 – 1965, at “Lansdowne Studios” and “Decca No. 2 Studio” in London, and was produced by Tony Calder.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocals
  • Mike Leander – arrangements, direction
  • David Whitaker – arrangements
  • Jon Mark – arrangements
  • Peter Hitchcock – engineer
  • Gus Dudgeon – engineer
  • David Bailey – photography
  • Gered Mankowitz – photography

Track listing:

  1. Come and Stay with Me – Jackie DeShannon
  2. If I Never Get to Love You – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
  3. Time Takes Time – Barry Fantoni, Marianne Faithfull
  4.  He’ll Come Back to Me – Claude-Henri Vic, Michael Farr, Robert Gall
  5. Down Town – Tony Hatch
  6. Plaisir d’amour – David Whitaker
  7. Can’t You Hear My heartbeat – John Carter, Ken Lewis
  8. As Tears Go By – Andrew Loog Oldham, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
  9. Paris Bells – Jon Birchell
  10. They Never Will Leave You – André Popp, Jean-Jacques Debout
  11. What Have They Done to the Rain – Malvina Reynolds
  12. In My Time of Sorrow – Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Page
  13. What Have I Done Wrong – Michael George Farr
  14. I’m a Loser – John Lennon, Paul McCartney